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Many struggling with holiday bills (AP via Yahoo! News) - Many people feel great when they're buying piles of gifts for relatives and friends at Christmas, but they can be overwhelmed when that blizzard of credit card bills arrives in the new year.

Arkansas Cities See Huge Electric Bills (AP via Yahoo! Finance) - Residents of two central Arkansas cities are dealing with electricity shocks. The shocks aren't being delivered by any widespread faults in wiring, though, but are coming instead through the mail, in the form of bills for the electricity used in their homes.

China c.bank sells 3-mth bills at 2.5429 pct (Reuters via Yahoo! Asia News) - SHANGHAI, Jan 25 (Reuters) - China's central bank on Thursday auctioned 30 billion yuan ($3.9 billion) in three-month bills in its regular open market operation at a yield of 2.5429 percent, up from last week's 2.5023 percent, traders said.

SNAP running out of money to help with utility bills (KXLY-TV Spokane) - SPOKANE -- More than 1,000 low-income families could suffer as the funds that the Spokane Neighborhood Action Program (SNAP) uses to help pay utility bills run low.

House Dems kill proposal to let public review state spending bills (The News Journal) - DOVER -- A bill that would have required the state's annual budget and bond bills to be introduced early enough for the public to have time to review them was shot down today by a House Democratic caucus united against it. The defeat of House Bill 4, one of the bills on the majority House Republicans' "Nine in Nine" legislative priority list, left its sponsor fuming about what he considered the ...

House subcommittee to review immigration bills (The Times and Democrat) - COLUMBIA, S.C. - A House subcommittee decided to take some more time Wednesday to consider bills that would clamp down on illegal immigrants and the businesses that hire them.

Bills hiking ticket costs (BizJournals) - The cost of attending a Buffalo Bills game at Ralph Wilson Stadium is again going up.

Bills Raising Ticket Prices For 2007 (CBS 5 News Syracuse) - The Buffalo Bills announced Wednesday they're raising ticket prices by an evreage of $5.00 per game next season.

City council to freeze tax bills for the second year (The Herald) - Council tax bills in Scotland's largest local authority are to be frozen for the second year in succession. But the decision by Glasgow, the first council in Scotland to announce next year's council tax levels, has already been dismissed as "a political ploy" and "a false economy".

Wrong Kahramaa bills give sleepless nights (The Peninsula) - doha • Wrong metre readings taken by the field employees of the Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation (Kahramaa) are giving sleepless nights to many expatriate families as they are made to pay huge bills.